| The Letter | |
|---|---|
&sq=&lang=&file=File:TheLetterPlay.jpg) First edition (Heinemann 1927) | |
| Date premiered | 24 February 1927[1] |
| Place premiered | Playhouse Theatre, London |
| Original language | English |
| Setting | A plantation in the Malay Peninsula, and Singapore |
The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was eventually pardoned.
- ^ Curtis, Anthony; Whitehead, John (2013) [1987]. W. Somerset Maugham. Routledge. p. 250. ISBN 9781134723638.